Under the Family Tree

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A poignant and often funny story of a young girl's transformative journey while looking for family in unexpected places.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Before</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Living with a single mother who receives annual Christmas cards from the bartenders in town high school sophomore Dakota Lodi is used to a bumpy ride in life.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(4 50 255 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To cope she retreats into her own universe. Dakotaworld. A place where you keep a low profile obsess over your awesome music playlists or hang out with your only friend Rosie Peña. Sure she makes a series of bad choices that gets her into trouble at school but she can deal with that.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until her mother is sentenced to four years in prison on drug charges and her world is shattered.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Forced to live with her estranged grandmother Dakota decides to search for the father she's never known. With the help of Rosie they track down her mother's old friends but most of them aren't too stoked about reliving the past especially when the girls unearth a cold-case homicide</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dakota suspects the case is related to her fathers story but to learn the truth she'll have to keep digging. She'll have to be smart and think twice before doing anything reckless. She'll have to become a new version of herself.</span></p><p><br></p>